**FCM ** - sounds like the show was great! Looks like you sold quite a few pieces. Next time, you’ll have to wear more clay so you don’t burn at all. (And thanks, Sean, for assuring me that I’m not the only one who thought of Arnold at that point.)
**Rebo ** - I made that etouffe for dinner Friday night. (I only used shrimp, though.) It was great! My husband was making those yummy noises while he ate, and made sure I remembered what I put in it. (I experiment a lot, and can’t seem to make the same thing twice.)
The Faire this weekend was a lot of fun. I brought 3 teenaged girls with me, and they were quite taken with Mika, Drae, and Drae’s Roomie. (The non-Doper is in the middle.) In fact, my daughter wants to know when the three of you are coming over to our house for dinner. So please consider that an open invitation whenever you’re in the neighborhood (or even just passing through on your way to somewhere more interesting!).
For all of you who haven’t had the pleasure of meeting them in person: Mika is just as sweet live as she is here, and Drae’s head looks nothing like a bowling ball (she’s nice, too!). This picture doesn’t do her justice, but it’s really of her tattoo, anyway. The hairbraiding Drae mentioned came out great – check it out here. Again, the non-doper is in the middle - I wonder why that is?
So, picture this. There are seven of us (Drae, Roomie, Mika, Twinkie, and the teenagers Twinkie carries around) sitting in a loose circle on a hill, just chatting. We notice a tiny little red-headed girl dressed up like Cinderella watching us. This little girl comes and plops herself down right in the middle of our group, smiling like she’s known us her whole life (all of about 3 years, I’d guess). She must have felt some kinship, since Drae, Roomie, and One Teenager are all redheads. Little Girl decides she’s going to roll down the hill. As any veteran hill-roller knows, to accomplish this, you lie across the hill, roll once, and gravity takes over. This girl lies with her feet pointing downhill, and starts rocking back and forth, and goes nowhere. Her dad is at the bottom of the hill, trying to coach her. Finally, he picks her up by her arm and her ankles, turns her sideways, and down she goes. She comes right back up to us, of course. Finally, she figures out the lying sideways part, but everytime she does it, she lies down behind Drae. So, of course, she’s not rolling. The best part, though, was when she got tired of the rolling, and just sat and stared at us. She didn’t have much to say, but didn’t want to leave. Finally, she asked Drae, “Can I have your purse?” Drae started laughing, and said, “Umm…no.” The girl wanted to know why, so Drae told her that she needed the purse, because her wallet and her phone were in there. The little girl said, “Oh. But you can get a new one.” Drae said no again (very nicely), and the girl started poking Drae and swatting (not quite hitting) her arm. Drae very calmly looks at us and says something like, “I’m being mugged.” OK – guess you had to be there. But it was funny.
The only other picture I took was of this guy, who was walking around the new pub. I think Mika took a bunch of pictures, probably much better and a lot less blurry than mine.
On preview – WOW this a long post! Sorry!
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I could just picture a little princess in her Minnie Mouse voice insisting you turn over the goods - I’m real sorry I missed that!
